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Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. Wong is a recipient of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award.[1]

Alyssa Wong
Born	Surprise, Arizona
Occupation	Author
Genre	Speculative fiction
Website
www.crashwong.net

Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University,[2] graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts.[3] In July 2018, Wong was hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch.[4] Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020, in addition to writing the 2022 Deadpool series.[5][6] [7] Wong is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.[8]

Bibliography

Chapbooks

• A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (2016)

Short fiction

• "The Fisher Queen" (2014)
• "Scarecrow" (2014)
• "Santos de Sampaguitas" (2014)
• "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" (2015)
• "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" (2016)
• "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" (2016)
• "Rabbit Heart" (2016)
• "Natural Skin" (2016)
• "The White Dragon" (2016)
• "Your Bones Will Not Be Unknown" (2016)
• "God Product" (2017)
• "A Clamor of Bones" (2017)
• "All the Time We've Left to Spend" (2018)
• "What My Mother Left Me" (2018)
• "Olivia's Table" (2018)
• "What You Left Behind" (2019)

Poems

• "For the Gardener's Daughter" (2015)

Essays

• "Here's How It Goes" (2015)
• "Buzzword" (2016)
• "The H Word: The Darkest, Truest Mirrors" (2016)
• "They Love Me Not: How Fictional Villains Saved My Life" (2016)

Comics

DC

• DC The Doomed and the Dammed #1 (with Travis G. Moore, Saladin Ahmed, Marv Wolfman, John Arcudi, Kenny Porter, Amanda Deibert, Garth Ennis, Amedeo Turturro, and Brandon Thomas, 2020)
• Sensational Wonder Woman #6 (2021)

Marvel

• Aero #1-12 (2019)
• Aero Vol. 2: The Mystery Of Madame Huang (2021)
• Carnage: Black, White & Blood #3 (with Karla Pacheco and Dan Slott, 2021)
• Deadpool #1- (2022-present)
• Future Fight Firsts (2021)
• Future Fight Firsts: Luna Snow (2019)
• Iron Fist #1-5 (2022)
• The Legend Of Shang-Chi #1 (2021)
• Shang-Chi Infinity Comic (with Nathan Stockman, 2021)
• Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1- (2020-Present)

• Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters - Boushh #1 (2021)

Awards

• 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[9] 2014 Shirley Jackson Award (Finalist),[10] 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[11] for "The Fisher Queen".[12]
• 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Winner),[9] 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (Winner),[13] 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (Finalist),[14] 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[15] 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,[16] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".[2]
• 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Finalist)[17] (As well, an analysis by Io9 indicated that, if not for the Sad Puppies ballot manipulation campaign, Wong would have also been a finalist for the 2015 award.)[18]
• 2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (Winner),[19] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (Finalist),[20] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (Finalist)[21] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".[22]
• 2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[19] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[20] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (Finalist)[21] for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".[23]

References

External links

• Official website
• Alyssa Wong at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Preceded by Scott Nicolay	World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction winner 2016	Succeeded by G. V. Anderson

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